We are getting screwed (WAGS)
We are getting screwed (WAGS) is a political committee registered with the Washington Public Disclosure Commission for the 2026 cycle. It reported $28,865 from 119 contributors.
- 2026 cycle
- Political Committee
- PDC ID 40380
- $28,865 raised · 2026
- $34,670 spent · 2026
- 119 contributors
$28,865
raised
$34,670
spent
$243
average contribution
The total divided by the reported contributor count.
Registration
- type
- Political Committee · 2026 cycle
- treasurer
- Named on the C-1 registration, which is not in the extract we hold — it is in the PDC filings linked above.
A political committee is not a legislative committee. For the four kinds of committee on file and why they are never ranked together, see the committee directory.
Source Public Disclosure Commission committee filings · as of 2026-09-15
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Money in — who funds this committee
The largest reported contributions. Washington requires committees to itemise contributions above a threshold; smaller gifts are reported in aggregate.
| Contributor | City | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Bell Michael | Spokane | $3,600 |
| Schaefer Steve | Spokane | $2,000 |
Contributions are not broken down by size, and employers are not named. Washington collects an employer field for individual contributions, and gift-size banding is what separates a committee funded by a hundred neighbours from one funded by three donors. We store only the largest contributors, so neither analysis is possible here — and computing concentration from a top-ten list would produce a confident number that is simply wrong.
Last checked 2026-09-15
Source WA PDC C-3 contributions · as of 2026-09-15 · rows $5,600 of $28,865 shown across 2 of 119 contributors · note amounts are printed, not charted; a sub-threshold aggregate is included in the total above and is not a giver
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How the money was gathered
The PDC types every contributor. This does not follow a committee’s own money back to a person — see what this page does not show — but it does say how much arrived from individuals rather than from other organisations.
| Band | Gifts | Dollars | Share of dollars |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under $100 | 21 | $515 | 1.8% |
| $100 to $999 | 49 | $7,300 | 25.3% |
| $1,000 to $4,999 | 9 | $12,000 | 41.6% |
| $5,000 to $24,999 | 0 | $0 | no contribution fell in this band — an empty band, not missing data |
| $25,000 and over | 0 | $0 | no contribution fell in this band — an empty band, not missing data |
| Reported in aggregate, not as gifts | 40 | $9,051 | 31.4% |
| All contributions reported | 119 | $28,865 | 100.0% |
0 of the 79 gifts this committee reports one at a time — 0.0% of them — supplied $0, or 0.0% of the money it can be said to have raised gift by gift.
| Contributor type | Amount | Share | Gifts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Individual | $17,475 | 99% | 60 |
| Business | $180 | 1% | 1 |
The aggregated small giving cannot be split into givers. Washington lets gifts below the itemisation threshold be reported as a single total with no contributor named. This committee reports $9,051 that way, in 40 rows. The total is in the band table above and in the amount raised; the people behind it are in no public record, so no analysis of them — count, average, geography — is possible for anyone, including the PDC.
Last checked 2026-09-15
Source WA PDC C-3 contributions · as of 2026-09-15 · rows 119 contribution rows, every one on exactly one line above — the lines add to $28,865 · bands the cut points are ours, not the state’s — Washington’s itemisation rule turns on one aggregate per contributor, not on a five-way split. An empty band is a fact, not missing data · note amounts are printed, not charted
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Employers behind the individual gifts
The employer of each individual contribution, as self-reported by the contributor. A company named here did not give and did not report — the string is the donor’s, normalised by us.
Colleagues who gave on the same day
Three or more people sharing an employer, giving to this committee on a single date. Money arriving together is the pattern; a shared employer on its own is not.
No same-day bundles were detected for this committee. No date shows three or more contributors sharing a stated employer giving together. That is what the filings hold, not proof no coordinated giving happened — the employer field below is blank on most gifts, so a bundle whose donors left it empty would not appear.
Last checked 2026-09-15
Employers behind more than one donor
Across the whole cycle rather than a single day. Weaker than the table above, and included because a slow accumulation from one workplace is still worth being able to see.
No employer is shared by more than one contributor. Either no two itemised donors reported the same workplace, or the employer field was left blank on the gifts that would have matched. The field is optional and self-reported, so an empty table here is a gap in what donors disclosed, not a committee with no colleagues among its givers.
Last checked 2026-09-15
Only 6.3% of itemised donors stated an employer. The field is filled in by the donor and left blank more often than not, so both tables above show what we can see rather than everything that exists. Treat the counts as a floor. Occupations reported in the employer box — “retired”, “self-employed” — are excluded, because they are not a shared workplace.
Last checked 2026-09-15
Source WA PDC C-3 contributions, employer field as self-reported by contributors · as of 2026-09-15 · caveat employer strings are normalised by us; no employer gave and none reported this
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How concentrated the money is
Computed from every itemised contribution rather than from the largest few, which is what makes the share meaningful.
77%
from the top 10 donors
Out of 119 itemised contributors in total.
Source WA PDC C-3 contributions · as of 2026-09-15 · note concentration is a fact about how the money was gathered, not a verdict on the committee
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Money out — where it went
$34,670
total spent
120.1%
of what it raised
Above 100% means it spent more this cycle than it took in — ordinary for a committee carrying a balance forward.
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largest payees listed
Who it paid
Largest payees, with the category the committee chose when filing. A consultancy, printer or polling firm appearing across many committees is a fact about who runs campaigns in Washington.
| Payee | Amount | Payments | Category as filed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lamar Advertising of Spokane | $20,700 | 7 | Other advertising |
| Milt Priggee | $2,605 | 6 | Design/graphic art, etc. |
| STRAWTHER RACHELLE | $1,500 | 1 | Inkind contribution |
| Preferred Printing | $1,482 | 3 | Printing literature, fliers, postcards, etc. |
| Preferred Printing | $594 | 1 | Printing campaign signs |
| Spokane Pride | $300 | 1 | Charity |
| 509 Media LLC | $180 | 1 | Inkind contribution |
A further $1,755 was reported as small expenses. Washington lets a committee report spending below a threshold as a single lump with no payee. That money is in the total above and cannot be broken out by anyone, including us.
Last checked 2026-09-15
Source WA PDC C-4 expenditures · as of 2026-09-15 · note independent expenditures and direct contributions are listed separately and never added together on a candidate’s page
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Independent expenditures
Money this committee reported spending for or against someone without coordinating with them. Kept apart from its ordinary spending, because folding the two together would misstate both.
No independent expenditures are on file for this committee this cycle. Most committees never make one — independent spending is concentrated in a few hundred filers. An empty section here is the PDC record, not a gap in ours.
Last checked 2026-09-15
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When the money moved
Itemised contributions in and expenditures out, by the month on the filing. Unitemised small-dollar totals carry no dates and are not in this chart — the money-in section states them.
| Month | In | Out | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2026 | $450 | $4,323 | ||
| Feb 2026 | $3,330 | $8,197 | ||
| Mar 2026 | $4,300 | $337 | ||
| Apr 2026 | $3,065 | $6,744 | ||
| May 2026 | $1,960 | $5,568 | ||
| Jun 2026 | $4,337 | $3,946 | ||
| Jul 2026 | $720 | — |
Source WA PDC C-3 + C-4 + C-6, bucketed by transaction date · as of 2026-09-15 · scale all bars share one scale, longest = $8,197
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Across cycles
Other filings under the same PDC committee id.
Only one cycle on file. We hold a single filing for committee 40380. That means it registered for one election, or that our sync covers only the cycles this one falls in — the filings do not distinguish the two.
Last checked 2026-09-15
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Does it add up
The arithmetic, in the open. Reported contributions less reported spending is what the committee should still be holding.
This committee reports spending more than it raised. That is not necessarily an error and is not an accusation. Contribution and expenditure reports are filed on different schedules, so a committee can appear overdrawn simply because its latest contribution report has not landed yet. We publish the subtraction rather than hiding it; the filings themselves are linked below.
Last checked 2026-09-15
Source WA PDC committee filings, as reported · as of 2026-09-15 · note where our arithmetic and the committee’s filing disagree, both numbers are printed and neither is silently corrected
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What this page does not show
Each of these is a number a reader might reasonably expect. None of them follow from the records we hold, so we do not publish them.
- Who is really behind a committee that funds this one
- We show every contributor the committee reported, and how much of its money came from organisations rather than individuals. A committee funded by another committee is common, and following that chain to the people at the end of it means joining filings across organisations and cycles — a join we have not made, and one that would be wrong to guess at.
- Who the independent spending was aimed at
- The filings name the candidate or measure each independent expenditure supported or opposed. We hold the amounts and which way they cut, but have not joined them to those records, so the page says how much and not against whom.
- Whether the spending worked
- We hold what was raised, what was spent, and in some cases the result. Connecting them would be a causal claim from two numbers, and spending is not the only thing that moves an election.
- Anything below the itemisation threshold
- Washington lets small contributions and small expenses be reported as lump sums with no counterparty. That money is in the totals and cannot be broken out by anyone, including the PDC. Where a lump is large, the page says so.
- Money that never had to be reported
- Everything here is money the law required someone to disclose. Spending that fell below a threshold, arrived after the last report, or was never reportable at all is absent, and nothing on this page can measure it. A committee’s reported total is a floor, not a ceiling.
- Whether committees on the same side are working together
- An independent expenditure that was coordinated with anyone would not be independent. Committees spending the same way in the same race may be allies, rivals for the same donors, or strangers; the filings record none of that, so we draw no bloc, alliance or network from them. No coordination edge exists anywhere in this graph — Washington has no coordination filing, so there is no document to read and no field to join on.
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Common questions
- What is We are getting screwed (WAGS)?
- We are getting screwed (WAGS) is a political committee registered with the Washington State Public Disclosure Commission for the 2026 election cycle.
- How much money has We are getting screwed (WAGS) raised?
- We are getting screwed (WAGS) reported $28,865 in contributions for the 2026 cycle from 119 contributors. The largest itemised contributions are listed in the money-in section above, and how that money was gathered is broken down by contributor type.
- How much has We are getting screwed (WAGS) spent?
- We are getting screwed (WAGS) reported $34,670 in expenditures. The “Does it add up” section subtracts reported spending from reported contributions in the open, and prints the residual even when the two filings do not yet reconcile.
- Where does the data on We are getting screwed (WAGS) come from?
- Every figure on this page is read from We are getting screwed (WAGS)’s own filings with the Washington State Public Disclosure Commission, published at the PDC. Nothing here is modelled or inferred; where a filing is silent or late, the page says so rather than filling the gap.
- What is a political committee in Washington?
- A political committee is any person or group, other than an individual, that raises or spends money to support or oppose a candidate or ballot measure in Washington. State law requires it to register with the Public Disclosure Commission and to file regular contribution and expenditure reports, which are the records this page is built from.
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“We are getting screwed (WAGS),” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-09-15, accessed 2026-09-19. https://washingtonindependents.org/committee/we-are-getting-screwed-wags/
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Where this page comes from
Every figure above is read from a primary source and rebuilt on a schedule. Nothing here is modelled or inferred; where a source is silent the page says so rather than filling the gap.
- Public Disclosure Commission committee filings
- Registration, contribution and expenditure totals, and the largest reported contributors. The original record is at the PDC.
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- Itemised expenditures, contributor employers, gift-size banding, and independent expenditure filings. Each is named where the page would otherwise use it.